Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,234

Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,234 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, July 12:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients arsenic windows shattered and shards of solid fell onto the beds, leaving families rushing to structure their babies. Three women and 3 newborns suffered acute accent and received aesculapian help.

• Nine radical were injured successful Kharkiv, and an flat gathering was besides damaged successful Russian attacks implicit the past day, portion 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 5 others injured arsenic a effect of assorted Russian attacks successful the surrounding region, politician Oleh Syniehubov said.

• Ukraine said its drones struck a Russian combatant craft works successful the Moscow portion and a rocket accumulation installation successful the Tula region, causing explosions and fires astatine both.

• The Russian Ministry of Defence said that 155 Ukrainian drones were downed betwixt Thursday and Friday, including 11 bound for Moscow.

• Dmitry Milyaev, Tula determination governor, said connected Telegram that 1 idiosyncratic was killed and different injured successful a Ukrainian onslaught connected the region, astir 200km (124 miles) southbound of Moscow.

• Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had taken the colony of Zelena Dolyna successful Donetsk, northeast of the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, arsenic their troops determination westward.

Politics and diplomacy

• The United States has resumed subject supplies to Ukraine, and elder officials successful Kyiv volition enactment connected subject practice adjacent week with US peculiar envoy Keith Kellogg, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media covering his ASEAN gathering successful Malaysia that helium outlined Russian President Vladimir Putin’s presumption connected settling the Ukraine warfare during a gathering with apical US diplomat Marco Rubio the time before.

• Lavrov has arrived successful North Korea, according to North Korea’s authorities media KCNA, the latest sojourn by a elder Russian authoritative to the isolated authorities amid warming ties betwixt the countries. The visit, scheduled for Sunday, includes a gathering with the country’s overseas minister.

• After North Korea, Lavrov is expected to question to China to be the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting, which is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Monday and Tuesday.

• South Korean quality work said North Korea whitethorn beryllium preparing to deploy further troops successful July oregon August, aft sending much than 10,000 soldiers to combat with Russia successful the war against Ukraine.

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has described arsenic “unacceptable” French President Emmanuel Macron’s connection to nonstop a peacekeeping unit to Ukraine should Moscow and Kyiv hold to an elusive ceasefire. He besides accused European leaders of a “pattern of militaristic anti-Russian sentiment”.

• Russia is awaiting the “major statement” that US President Donald Trump announced helium would present connected Monday, Peskov said.

• Peskov besides said wartime censorship successful Russia is justified amid the struggle with Ukraine and the closure of opposition-minded media. Several Russian-language media outlets person been blocked since the commencement of the warfare successful February 2022, arsenic good arsenic societal media platforms similar X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

• Fatigue implicit the war in Ukraine and US-led overseas assistance cuts are jeopardising efforts to enactment radical fleeing hardship, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director-General Amy Pope warned, a time aft a Ukraine betterment league successful Rome mobilised implicit 10 cardinal euros ($11.69bn) for the country.

• The United Nations commercialized and improvement agency, UNCTAD, has announced that its statement with Moscow to facilitate exports of Russian foodstuffs and fertiliser to planetary markets successful a bid to rein successful planetary nutrient prices “will not beryllium renewed” erstwhile it expires connected July 22, citing disagreements.

Weapons

• Germany has nary plans to procure further F-35 combatant jets, a Federal Ministry of Defence spokesperson said connected Friday, denying a Politico study that the state planned to turn its planned fleet to 50 amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
• NATO volition request much long-range missiles successful its arsenal to deter Russia from attacking Europe due to the fact that Moscow is expected to summation accumulation of long-range weapons, US Army Major-General John Rafferty told the Reuters quality agency.
• Kyiv volition allocate 260 cardinal hryvnias ($6.2m) for a drone interceptor programme to support the capital’s skies from Russian drones, metropolis authorities said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies